Palo Alto

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT  Daily Post Staff Writer  In an update to City Council about recent storms, City Manager Ed Shikada touted the city’s online presence, and one council member said […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council tonight (Jan. 9) picked Lydia Kou as mayor and Greer Stone as vice mayor for 2023. Kou’s appointment was […]

Mayor is shown first, followed by vice mayor. An asterisk (*) denotes a year in which the previous year’s vice mayor became mayor. Before 1982, mayoral terms ran from July […]

Sunday, 10 a.m. — Power has been partially restored to some residents in Palo Alto this morning, with more expected to be restored by noon. Power was restored to some […]

By the Daily Post staff A man opened the door of a woman’s car and grabbed her purse from the passenger’s seat of her car parked near Greer Park while […]

By the Daily Post staff 11:05 p.m. Power is out to about 2,000 Palo Alto residents at this hour. High winds have downed trees that have brought power lines along […]

By the Daily Post staff The National Weather Service says Palo Alto will be under a flood watch on Wednesday (Jan. 4) and Thursday, when there’s a 100% chance of […]

By the Daily Post staff • Creek flood monitors fail; • Palo Alto runs out of sandbags; • Water flow on San Francisquito Creek exceeds 1998 flood UPDATE, 5:47 p.m. […]

By the Daily Post staff 9 p.m. — The number of Palo Alto electric customers without power continued to dwindle into the night. Crews restored power to most customers in […]

A 28-year-old man was arrested on Christmas night after he stole a car in downtown Mountain View that had two children inside, police said. A woman called Mountain View police […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council voted tonight to build a fiber internet network that would compete with Comcast and AT&T. The city will do the […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council agreed tonight (Dec. 19) to extend a contract with a company that has been underpaying janitors for more than four […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council welcomed a suggestion tonight (Dec. 12) to update and enforce the city’s ban on short-term rentals. A ban against […]

The former CEO of failed cryptocurrency firm FTX, Sam Bankman-Fried, was arrested today (Dec. 12) in the Bahamas at the request of the U.S. government, U.S. and Bahamian authorities said. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The city of Palo Alto is planning how to use space at City Hall that will open up once police and fire administration […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer A customer at the Apple Store in downtown Palo Alto recorded a Black Friday heist by two men, and the video shows the […]

This story was originally published in Friday’s Daily Post. To stay up with the news, pick up the Post in the mornings at 1,000 Mid-Peninsula locations. Before standout goalie Katie […]

By the Daily Post staff Police arrested a suspect today (Nov. 22) in a drive-by shooting of Fleming’s Prime Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center. Zachary Michael Ginsberg, 32, of […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHTDaily Post Staff Writer A man fired a gun into the front window of Fleming’s Steakhouse at the Stanford Shopping Center this afternoon (Nov. 21), and about 20 […]

A federal judge today (Nov. 18) sentenced Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes to 11 years and three months in prison, citing the need for investors in Silicon Valley startups […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer An entrepreneur who built one of the world’s top cryptocurrency companies and then saw it all come crashing down almost overnight was raised […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department’s officer-therapist team is no longer operating because the therapist left the job, Chief Andrew Binder said tonight (Nov. […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer The Palo Alto Police Department is finally taking it seriously when officers use profanity, independent police auditor Mike Gennaco told council tonight (Nov. […]

By the Daily Post staff Palo Alto police say they have arrested a man who allegedly broke into a home and then took off running when he discovered somebody inside, […]

By KEN SWEET AP Business Writer Sam Bankman-Fried received numerous plaudits as he rapidly achieved superstar status as the head of cryptocurrency exchange FTX: the savior of crypto, the newest […]

This story originally published in the Oct. 20 print edition of the Daily Post. By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer The balance on Palo Alto City Council could shift […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto school board candidate Shana Segal had a strong last month of fundraising that was boosted by local support, putting her neck […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Mayor Pat Burt has revoked his endorsement of Palo Alto City Council candidate Lisa Forssell because he said her approach to housing is […]

BY ELAINE GOODMAN Daily Post Correspondent Stanford University is siding with Harvard in a Supreme Court case challenging the Ivy League school’s use of race as a factor in admissions […]

By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer A police dog and an officer are getting ready to take to the streets of Palo Alto, restarting a program that has been […]

BY BRADEN CARTWRIGHT Daily Post Staff Writer Palo Alto City Council gave a thumbs up tonight (Oct. 24) to installing license plate reading cameras around the city that would automatically […]

October 19, 2022 By Braden Cartwright Daily Post Staff Writer Candidates for Palo Alto’s school board and city council held a rally in front of City Hall on Oct. 16 […]